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We are seeking a highly talented, motivated, and creative technical leader responsible for the reliability strategy, architecture, operational maturity, and long-term technical direction of mission-critical developer platforms used by Air Dominance engineering teams.\nThis role will provide technical leadership across GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, related software delivery tools such as Artifactory and SonarQube, and the supporting infrastructure, automation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and security controls required to operate these services. The selected candidate will do the following; define standards, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, lead complex technical investigations, and partner with program leadership and stakeholders. They will ensure developer tooling remains secure, reliable, scalable, and are able to support.\nPosition Responsibilities:\nDefine and lead the Site Reliability Engineering technical strategy for GitLab, CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, SonarQube, and related developer tooling infrastructure\n\nEstablish platform reliability architecture, operational standards, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, error budgets, observability patterns, capacity models, backup strategies, and disaster recovery approaches\n\nServe as the senior technical authority for complex reliability, performance, scalability, integration, database, automation, and security-related platform decisions\n\nLead architecture and design reviews for developer tooling infrastructure, CI/CD runner topology, PostgreSQL operations, cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, access controls, and platform integrations\n\nDrive automation, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, and repeatable operational patterns that reduce toil and improve reliability\n\nGuide major upgrades, migrations, lifecycle planning, patch strategies, recovery planning, and technical roadmaps for supported platforms\n\nLead the most complex incidents and technical investigations, including root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and systemic reliability improvements\n\nMentor and technically guide SREs in operational excellence, troubleshooting, automation, secure administration, and architectural thinking\n\nPartner with program leadership, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software engineering, database, networking, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders\n\nIdentify platform risks, technical debt, capacity constraints, single points of failure, compliance concerns, and operational gaps, then drive remediation plans\n\nLead efforts to operationally field higher-quality end-to-end system software more frequently\n\nParticipate in after-hours support and escalation for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required\n\nBasic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):\nBachelors Degree\n\nThis position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship\n\nThis position requires ability to obtain access to Special Access Programs (SAP)\n\n8+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo\n\n8+ years of experience enterprise architecture experience, including but not limited to cloud architecture, security, data privacy, integration, and deployment\n\n5+ years of experience in root cause analysis and corrective action\n\n5+ years of technical leadership and team leadership\n\nPreferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):\nBachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 14+ years of 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decision records\n\nTravel:\n10%\nDrug Free Workplace:\nBoeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.\nConflict of Interest:\nSuccessful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.\nCodeVue Coding Challenge:\nTo be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.\nPay & Benefits:\nAt Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.\nThe Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.\nThe specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.\nPay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\nPotential signing bonus for eligible/qualified external candidates.\nSummary Pay Range for Lead level (Level 5): $198,050- $267,950\nLanguage Requirements:\nNot ApplicableEducation:\nBachelor's Degree or EquivalentRelocation:\nThis position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.Export Control Requirement:\nThis position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. 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